Hair-pin.



H. MORRIS.

HAlB..III\. APPLIGATION FILED JAN. 27. '1910.

969,178. Patented sept. 6,1910.

UNITED STATES vPATENT OFFICE.

HARRY MORRIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

To all lrwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of @ook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a new and improved hair pin with means to assist in retaining it in its proper position.

Another object of my invention is to provide a double pronged hair pin with auX- iliary minor prongs-to be embedded in the hair and aid in retaining the hair pin in its proper position.

These objects and various others will be made more readily apparent in the following specification, taken in connection with the appended claims and the accompanying sheetot drawings.

My invention is defined in the claims at the end of this specification, but I have illustrated one specific embodiment thereof in the accompanying drawings, ceed to describe it.

Figure l is a rear perspective View of a device embodyin my invention.` Fig. 2 is a section thereo taken on the line 2,. 2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow.

The prongs 5 project in a generally parallel relation from the common head or cross bar 6, with which they are preferably in-y tegrall formed, and for a substantial portion o their length are preferably curved transversely, as shown in Fig. 2. The parts 5, 5, and 6 form a double pronged hair pin. f

and I now pro- The comb comprises a base 7 and a plurality of relatively small and closely disposed teeth 8, which are curved, as shown, the ase 8 being preferably cemented to the cross-bar 6 of the hair pin with the teeth 8 so arranged that'their curvature is reversed to that of the prongs 5 so as to provide gradually tapering spaces between said teeth to receive the hair.

As viewed in Fig. 2, theright-hand side l of the device is the exposed or front part thereof. It will be seen that the plurality Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed January 27, 1910.

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HAIR-PIN.

Patented sept. 6, icio. Serial No. 540,425.

smaller prongs or teeth 8 will be buried in the mass of the wearers hair when the pin is in place, and will thus serve to prevent the`pin from displacement, Not only does this comb hold the pin from lateral displacement, but the teeth 8 being relatively of relatively7 small and close together, their vfrictional en gagexnent with the hair serves to prevent the pin from being misplaced in the length- Wise direction of the main prongs 5. "he pin is also retained against displacement longitudinally by. the tapering spaces formed between the prongs 5 and those of the teeth 8 which are opposite said prn'gs, into which the hair is crowded with a Wedging action. l

It will be observed that the small teeth 8 are concealed from 'view by being buried in the hair of the wearer of the pin.

I have found that one practicable Way to construct the device is to cement the lcomb 7&8 to the base 6 of the double pronged pin.

1. In a device of the class described, va hair pin comprising two relatively large curved prongs projecting .from a common base, and a comb Ihaving a base rigidly secured to the base of the hair pin and provided With a plurality ofsmaller teeth which are reversely curved to and spaced from said prongs and arranged to form therewith a tapering space.

' 2. In adevice of the class described, a

hair pin comprising two relatively large lny Hallie.

HA RRY MORRIS. Witnesses J. P. MANN, SAMUEL S. JACOBS. 

